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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

I don't think good films have messages.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

I try not to look for messages in films.

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.